Team Hah Productions’ Journey to Fort San Pedro

It was one Saturday morning last September 25, 2010 when the group visited the paradise of Fort San Pedro.  Our visit there gave us a chance to observe some activities and gathered possible facts about the place.

For us  Fort San Pedro, is like a home. 
It is a place where you can find yourself again; when you want to relax, you can choose to be there at times when you want to be out of the city world for awhile. It is also a great place that you can visit with your fiends and love ones.

      
For creative activities, Fort San Pedro also is perfect especially in making documentations, shooting scenes, pictorials, prenuptial and pre debut photo shoots and many more. 

But Of course this page wouldn’t be completely perfect without the presence of our group pictures.

In this juncture, our group will now share the happy moments we have during our visit…   

          So what are you waiting for make your own memories here at the fort, memories with your friends and love ones you surely wont forget.

How can I get there?

           Fort San Pedro is on a Pigafetta Street in the area of the Plaza Independencia near Pier 1 facing the ocean on two sides. If you want to go away from the busy place of the city, Fort San Pedro is the perfect place for you to unwind and also refresh your mind about the historical events that had happened in this place. 

• If you were in SM, you just have to simply ride 21D manalili route. The jeepney drivers will surely drop you to it nearest jeepney stop for Fort San Pedro. But if you would want to ride on to a much more fancier vehicle, a taxi is also possible. From SM to Fort San Pedro, taxi ride might cost you P50-70 only. There is no taxi driver in Cebu that doesn't know about the location of Fort San Pedro so surely, the taxi driver will drop you off exactly in front of Fort San Pedro. 

• After you have arrived in Fort San Pedro a beautiful clerk with a wonderful smile will kindly ask for you if you want to go inside. For students fee, you only have to pay P20/head. If you are not a student anymore, you just have to pay P30/head.

         After you are done paying the entrance fee, you can now enjoy the beauty of the Fort San Pedro. There is no strict requirement before entering the place. It is very much allowed to take pictures of anything that you would desire to be taken. Once you are inside Fort San Pedro, you will see on your right side a blind old man who will serenade your entire day. Fort San Pedro is opened at 9 am and closes at 7 in the evening. There is also a big space for you and your family to have picnic inside Fort San Pedro. Chairs are available in almost any corner that you walk in the Fort.

           Team Hah! had visited this historical site in Cebu. And as we were roaming around, We had witnessed a pre-nuptial photo shoot  right in Fort San Pedro garden place. Right then we knew that Fort San Pedro had held a lot of wedding events and wedding receptions throughout the years. We were amazed by the fact that even if Fort San Pedro is an historical place, a very old-fashioned building, still it had preserved  and is still flourishing its beauty. 

            We also noticed that there were a lot of foreigners who were also visiting the place. There were Koreans, Taiwanese , Japanese and Americans who came and experienced the beauty of Fort San Pedro.

   

                

              Definitely, Fort San Pedro is great place to bond with family and friends. With just a cheap budget of P50, you'll surely enjoy you're whole day here. This is a must see and a must experience historical place in Cebu.So, what are you waiting for? Bring your family, friends and loved ones here and you will surely have an unforgettable and worth it experience in Fort San Pedro.

See me at my best, Fort San Pedro.

Cebu is indeed a home ground of cultural artifacts. It was said that this island serves to be the witness of series of events that made Philippines as what it is now. Some memoirs were recognized and some were left astray, some were acknowledge and some were kept.  History sites and documents are the ones who kept the memory alive even until today.

Fort San Pedro, which is located in Cebu, is a great help in refreshing the bygones.  This monument that functioned in different ways for the past centuries. The construction was defined having a total of 2,025 square meters, with walls that are 20 feet high and 8 feet thick, the establishment rise 30 feet from the ground. Though this fort is the smallest in the island of Philippines, the challenges make it bigger and boulder compared from the other monument.

The fort was named after the Spanish flagship, San Pedro which was headed by a conquistador of Spain Miguel Lopez de Legazpi. It was first built with logs and muds that was soon became the area where Spaniards settled. Fort San Pedro was described as  a triangular shape, made of stones and mortar, and with three bastions named La Concepcion,(southwest side),  Ignacio de Loyola,(southeast) and San Miguel (northeast).

A part of the monument was the area that personnel who manned the fort lived; this zone is called “Cuerpor de Guardia” and “Vivende del Teniente” as where the fort lieutenant stayed.

         

The fort was said to have a big role in Philippine History, it was first built for Spanish settlement, became a prison for the rebel Filipinos way back on the Philippine Revolution, turned into an American Warwick Barracks and soon became the area of knowledge when fort was turned over by an American Commodore George Dewey . It became the first classrooms where Cebuanos received their first education.

             

On World War II, Fort San Pedro was used as a prison camp and fortification for Japanese soldiers, served as a hospital when battle for freedom was fought and soon after, fort became the army camp.

Fort San Pedro stands still in Cebu, went under construction using coral stones to look the same way as it was before. The fort became a miniature garden of Cebu Garden Club, an office of some government agencies, and a mini zoo in Cebu.

Today, the fort is now a museum-park in Cebu, a space where you can trace the history. An area where Spanish artifacts, documents, paintings, sculptures, sword fragments, cannons, helmets and porcelains that were exhibited.

Even today, You will be able to witness and see the Philippine history  by visiting the fort that is located in front  of Plaza Independencia.